Tracy, that command is "DOEVENTS" (no spaces)

Fred

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 11:40 AM Tracy Pearson tracy@powerchurch.com wrote:

You need to force the events before the sleep starts with the

DO EVENTS

HTH, Tracy

-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of John Weller Sent: Friday, August 16, 2019 2:15 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Timing Issue

Hi

I have an app with a countdown timer to shut down. The code is as shown below (white space removed):

LOCAL lcMessageText

DECLARE Sleep in Win32API ;

integer nMilliseconds

WITH ThisForm

  .cmdCancel.enabled = .F.

  .Countdown = Control.Countdown

  IF .ShutdownFlag = .T.

        lcMessageText = 'Shutting down in '

  ELSE

        lcMessageText = 'Closing the Membership system down in '

  ENDIF

  *&* This is the message that doesn't display

.lblTimer.Caption = lcMessageText + ALLTRIM(STR(.Countdown)) + ' seconds'

  .Refresh

  DO WHILE .Countdown > 0

        Sleep(5000)

        .Countdown = .Countdown - 5

        .lblTimer.Caption = lcMessageText + ALLTRIM(STR(.Countdown)) +

' seconds'

        .Refresh

  ENDDO

*!* IF .ShutdownFlag = .T.

*!* RUN Shutdown.exe /s /f /t 10

*!* ENDIF

  .Release

  CLEAR EVENTS

ENDWITH

My problem is that the message before the DO WHILE loop doesn't display. The code is in the Click event of a button. When I press the button nothing appears to happen for about 20 seconds then the messages in the loop are displayed. It then works as planned.

Is there any way I can force the system to display the message?

Thanks

John

John Weller

01380 723235

07976 393631

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<smile>

Fred

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 3:01 PM Tracy Pearson tracy@powerchurch.com wrote:

Keep you on your toes.

Tracy

-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Fred Taylor Sent: Friday, August 16, 2019 5:26 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Timing Issue

Tracy, that command is "DOEVENTS" (no spaces)

Fred

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 11:40 AM Tracy Pearson tracy@powerchurch.com wrote:

...

You need to force the events before the sleep starts with the

DO EVENTS

HTH, Tracy

-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of John Weller Sent: Friday, August 16, 2019 2:15 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Timing Issue

Hi

I have an app with a countdown timer to shut down. The code is as shown below (white space removed):

LOCAL lcMessageText

DECLARE Sleep in Win32API ;

integer nMilliseconds

WITH ThisForm

  .cmdCancel.enabled = .F.

  .Countdown = Control.Countdown

  IF .ShutdownFlag = .T.

        lcMessageText = 'Shutting down in '

  ELSE

        lcMessageText = 'Closing the Membership system down in '

  ENDIF

  *&* This is the message that doesn't display

.lblTimer.Caption = lcMessageText + ALLTRIM(STR(.Countdown)) + ' seconds'

  .Refresh

  DO WHILE .Countdown > 0

        Sleep(5000)

        .Countdown = .Countdown - 5

        .lblTimer.Caption = lcMessageText + ALLTRIM(STR(.Countdown))

...

' seconds'

        .Refresh

  ENDDO

*!* IF .ShutdownFlag = .T.

*!* RUN Shutdown.exe /s /f /t 10

*!* ENDIF

  .Release

  CLEAR EVENTS

ENDWITH

My problem is that the message before the DO WHILE loop doesn't display. The code is in the Click event of a button. When I press the button nothing appears to happen for about 20 seconds then the messages in the loop are displayed. It then works as planned.

Is there any way I can force the system to display the message?

Thanks

John

John Weller

01380 723235

07976 393631

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